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— Vegvísir Meiri
2016
wood carving
— Group of Five Paintings
2021
five stirring sticks
— Third House
2011
— To Light Shadow and Dust (corner half-circle)
1994 - 2014
gold leaf, glass
— Two Small Windows
unknown
— White, Gray and Black
2019-2022
painted wood
— Untitled (hologram)
2008
Hologram, spotlights
— Installation Piece (In Two Parts)
2009
Stirring sticks, paint, pedestal
— Blue, Green and Pink
2019-2022
painted wood
— To Light, Shadow and Dust (corner)
1994-2014
gold leaf, glass, 4 shelves
— Þingvallavatn
1973–1974
watercolour on paper using water from Þingvallavatn lake
— Untitled (red,yellow,blue wood)
1980
painted wood
— So Far
1976
black and white photograph mounted on debond
— After a While
1976
black and white photograph, handwritten text on paper
— Untitled (prism I)
1999-2000
colour photograph
— Tungustapi
1998
colour photograph
— Encounter II
1992–2018
black and white photograph, glass, wooden frame, diptych
— Bouncing Balls Event
2002-2003
two colour photographs, diptyc
— Attending
1973
two colour photographs and text
— Drawing a Tiger
1971
two black and white photographs
— Sooner or Later
1976
black and white photograph
— Elsewhere
1998
colour photograph
— A Woman Resting in the Golden Ratio
2012
framed c-print, mirror, transparent glass paint
— Frequent Long Walks, Autobiographical
2015–2016
text, photographs, map and projection
— Green Glass
2020
photos and text
— Maybe, Maybe
1975
two black and white photographs, text
— Territory
1982
colour photograph, chalk on paper
— Untitled (Water)
1990
framed black and white photos
— Movement One, Two. 1999-2015
1999–2015
C-print (2 sizes)
— Five Gates for the South Wind
1971–72
fourteen black and white photographs, text on paper
— Untitled (prism II)
1999–2000
colour photograph
— Couplet
1978 - 79
two colour photographs, two canvases
— (Elnaz) Encounter
2022
colour photographs, text on paper
— House Project
1974-2017
colour photographs
— Mid-Night Jump, Canneto Pavese, Oltrepó Pavese, Italy, 1975–1976
1975-2018
three coloured photographs
— Paris Parfum (from Paris March 2008) (I-III)
2008
Silver Gelatin Print
— (Untitled) Catching the Rainbow
1999
cibachrome on aluminium
— Books
2006
c-print
— Sheep and Horses of my Nephew
2001
28 colour photographs
— Five Minutes Monument by the Sea
2007
inkjet print on paper
— Etrangeresse (Stranger)
1990
colour photography, wood, fossils, nine elements
— First Window (Homage to Marcel Duchamp)
1992
framed colour photograph
— Sacred and Enchanted Places
1972
black and white photographs, text on paper
— Self-portrait (reproduction)
2015-2016
photographic reproduction of a painting
— Untitled Night
2012
two c-prints
— Untitled for Hafnarborg
2012
diptych, pigment inkjet print on semigloss paper
— Untitled (prism diptych)
2001
Two color photographs
— From Time - To Time
1979
framed photographs and text, six elements
— Solstice
2004
Digital print
— A Wave of Mine and a Cloud From My Good Neighbour
2007
inkjet print on paper, diptych
— Seven Times
1978
seven black and white photographs
— Around and About
2013
c-print (left), stills from video (right) colour, silent, 14’39”
— A View in a'
1976-1977
black and white photograph
— Me and Pétur
2008
two colour photographs
— Composition
2012
framed c-print, plumb line, string, nail
— Nocturn
2013
Digital Inkjet Print
— Artist in the Air
1977
black and white photograph
— The Way We Were
2002
four black and white photographs
— From Home
2009
two c-prints
— A Place
1975
two black and white photographs, handwritten text on paper
— Untitled (prism vertical)
1998-1999
colour photograph
— Interior (photo)
1993
colour photograph
— Overture
1978
black and white photographs, handwritten text on paper, seven elements
— Tinkering (To Mondrian)
2011
six colour photographs
— A Portrait of a Sculptor as a Sculpture
2011-2014
HD video
— Reaching Out (Left hand shadow sent on a journey to infinity, through the window in the small room, 13 September 2018)
2018
stills from HD video colour, sound, 1’07”
— World Light
2013
still from HD video colour, silent,
— Mermaid
2012
stills from video colour, sound
— Correspondence in Red and Green
2012
HD video colour, sound,
— Untitled (books)
2009
still from HD video colour, sound,
— Roman Amphora
2009
stills from HD video colour, silent, 6’ loop
— A Man
2013–2014
stills from HD video colour, sound,
— Untitled (Twine)
2011
stills from HD video colour, sound
— Triptych (Headspin, Pendulum, Plumbline)
2010
plumb line, two HD videos, colour, sound, 10’35” and 57”
— Beauty Marks
2004
velvet mounted on wood
— You May Take One Stone With You
1977
table, stones, text on paper
— Misty
2005
mirror
— Untitled (passepartout)
2009
Black wooden frame, passepartout, metal wire
— Blue Spot Painting
1973
oil and graphite on canvas
— Correspondence
1991-2007
envelopes, cards
— Untitled (handprint in plaster)
1977
plaster diptych
— Atelier Sketch
1990
spider’s web, glass, wooden frame
— From a Far
1990
paper, Swarovski crystals
— Small Streams
1990
coloured paper, black and white photograph, Swarovski crystals
— Cliffs and Whispers
1983–84
seven black and white photographs, seven graphite frottages on paper in aluminium frames seven elements
— Opus…
1984
plywood, rusted iron, plexiglass, silkscreen, pen, gold leave, paint
— Untitled (Relief)
1966
paint, metal, rope
— Story-line
1991
black and white photograph, acrylic, steel
— A Folded Star
1983
wood, silk
— A While
1979
wood carving, black and white photograph, watercolour on paper
— Untitled (pergament circle red square)
1986
paper, wood, pergament, metal
— Geometric Composition with a Helping Hand
1990
granite, iron, black and white photograph
— Fragment of Remembrance
1990
steel wire, Swarovski crystals
— Untitled (pergament galvanised steel)
1989
wood, galvanised steel, drawing on pergament
— (amount) Drops
1979-2024
glass
— Suspended
1999–2024
stirring sticks
— Interior
1989
granite, wood, various metals, galvanized iron, Swarovski crystals
— I Collect Personal Secrets
1972
paper and various materials, partly unknown
— By the Roadside
1980–82
colour photograph, drawing on cloth, wood
— Untitled (Isafjordur hospital)
1987
wood
— Composition Ginkgo Biloba
2008
Ginkgo biloba leaves, photograph
— One of Four Corners of Infinity and the Fifth Corner
2010–2011
painted MDF
— Autumn Leaves
2010
Ginkgo biloba leaves
— Bluecoming
1989
oil paint on canvas, coloured wood, iron, framed drawings and petals
— Landscape
1990
plasticine
— Night Islands
1979-1985
roofing slates, wood, petals, silk, gold leaf, watercolour
— To Light, Shadow and Dust
1994–2014
gold leaf, glass
— Eye to Eye
2009–2013
two convex mirrors, inkjet print
— Untitled (glass hans)
1991
piano string, glass cast
— To Light Shadow and Dust (corner triangle)
1994 - 2014
gold leaf, glass
— Untitle (wood and drawing)
1987
wood, drawing
— Floor to floor
2009
30 frottages on paper, electric fan
— Urban Impressions
2011
puzzle pieces
— The Fall
2005
metirod, vinyl text
— The First 3 Prime Numbers
2014
glass, wood, pearls
— Traces
2014
frottage on paper, photograph, stone, wood, glass, mirror
— Klettur
2017-2024
cardboard boxes, mirrored Dibond, plastic, wood, ammonite fossils, anatomic model of inner ear, Swarovski crystals, fine art inkjet print on alu-dibond, HD video (colour silent, 50’), framed c-prints
— Clearing
2013
stirring sticks
— Best Suit
1982-2003
suit, photograph
— Hulduklettur
2017
cardboard boxes, mirrored Dibond, plastic, wood, ammonite fossils, anatomic model of inner ear, Swarovski crystals, fine art inkjet print on alu-dibond, HD video (colour silent, 50’), framed c-prints
— Untitled (broken wood)
1987
two framed drawings, painted wood
— Whatever Time We Choose (Ten Past Four)
1999–2000
Swarovski crystals
— Composition for meteorite, magnet and thread
2016
meteorite, magnets, threads
— My Window at Night
1995
Chinese ink on paper
— Winter Mountain
1992
Swarovski crystals
— Embryonic Images
2000
fluorescent acrylic rods
— World
1990-2007
26 Clay elements
— All the Prizes and Then Some More
2006
series of reproduced paintings, newspaper
— Untitled (drawing marble granite)
1987
granite, marble, pastel
— Study in Black II
2009-2010
black mirror, Claude mirror
— Below and Above
1983-84
granite, marble, Indian ink on paper
— Illustration
2013
mirage, white paint, two c-prints (framed), injekt-print, platinum
— By the Ocean
2021
stromatolite Collenia undosa (one of the earliest life forms on earth, between 2.2 and 2.4 billion years old), crystal balls each Ø 20 cm, an oxygen molecule
— Anatomy (Aftertought)
1989
optical resonator, wood, spring steel, wooden letters, polished steel mirror
— Remains of the Day
1995
magnet, various metal cuttings
— To light, Shadow and Dust (one step up)
2007
gold leaf, glass
— Element of Doubt
1995–96
painted MDF
— Lake
1991
colour photographs taken through a kaleidoscope, wood, metal
— Around an Apple
2004
apple, pedestal, postcards, printed texts on paper, silver acrylic and wooden frames dimensions variable (top image: installation view with Richard Serra, Corner Diamond, 1986, corten steel)
— The Hour
1980
stone, gold, silver, plywood, two parts
— Summernights
1990
coloured paper
— Portal
2016
onyx beads, mirrors
— Untitled (steel sheet)
1983-84
photograph, steel, wood, letter seal
— Anatomy
1989
optical resonator, wood, spring steel, ceramic, silver, gold leaf, water
— The Gone and the Coming
1991
chicken wire, ammonite fossils
— Palace
1990
chicken wire
— Group of 4 paintings
2004
4 wooden sticks with painting
— Point / Counterpoint
2017
arrow (wood, sheet metal), paint, glass drop
— Tangled (Collaboration between a Cat and a Human)
2016
multicoloured threads, spools
— Untitled (wooden wall install)
1985-1986
wood and painted wood
— Along a Line
1985
paper, black and white photographs, acrylic, colour study, glass, metal frames, cardboard, silver paint
— Something black something white something, neither black nor white
2001
Drawings, fossilised fish, paint on concrete walls
— Harvest of Enterprise
2010
debris
— Red, Yellow and Blue
2019
painted wood
— Study in Black I
2008-2009
black mirror, artificial horizon, photographs, text, pedestal
— Fragments of Blue
1986
stained wood, framed drawings on paper
— Study in Black III
2010
black mirror, Claude mirror, photographic print
— By the Waterfall
2022
stromatolite Collenia undosa (one of the earliest life forms on earth, between 2.2 and 2.4 billion years old), crystal balls, plastic model of oxygen molecule, a single carbon atom, black and white photograph, crystal balls each Ø 20 cm, an oxygen molecule
— Branche
1998
polished stainless steel, painted wood
— Arrangement for Strings
1991
piano string
— Discovery in a Corner
2013
polished brass galvanised with nickel, Swarosvki crystals
— Thorsteinn Surtr Dreamed
2002
(From The Book of the Icelanders, Ari the Learned, c. 1125) vinyl text
— What Didn’t Happen?
1973–2014
wooden frame, glass, ink
— Dream
1973
text on paper
— I would like to show my gratitude
1974
handwritten text on paper
— Substances
1974
text and handwritten text on paper
— Priceless
2015
handwritten text on paper
— I Have Lit This Candle...
1973
handwritten text and watercolour on paper, shelf, candle
— Twenty and Twenty
2004
printed text on vinyl canvas, blue yarn
— I Spent a Day
1975
text, gold and silver leaf on paper, diptych
— Like Eyes
1976-1977
text on paper
— Untitled (Text Piece, Crossed Letters)
2009
vinyl text
— Yes I Know How It Feels…
2001
vinyl text
— Clues
2002
vinyl text
— Night
1999
cloth, text on paper
— A small ephemeral abstract painting
1995-2008
mirage, small-painting
— Afterthought
2001
wooden letters, polished steel mirror
— Pair
2004–05,
mirror, shoe
— First step into courtship
2014
lady shoe, oil paint, mirror, wood
— Blind Date
2014
black glass, black stiletto shoe
— Untitled (corner vase)
2009
Cirva glass, mirror steel plates
— Untitled (Vases)
2001–2002
polished stainless steel, glass
— Untitled Wall Installation
1989
painted wood, ulexite
— Two-part Contact
1995
glass, painted wood, funnel
— Mediterranean Impressions
1994
puzzel pieces
— Untitled (frames)
1986-88
watercolour, slate, wood
— Garden Sculpture
unknown
metal
— Bagatelle
1995
magnet, various metal cuttings
— Fruits of Labour
2004
pencil shavings
— Entangled
2001-2022
cirva glass, mirrored plates
— (Fishing Fly) Streamer
1999–2007
glass, fishing fly
— (amount) Bottles
1999–2002
three solid glass bottles
— Monument
2015
plastic urinal, painted metal
— First house
1974
corrugated iron, wood, wallpaper, glass, framed photographs,
— Rounding the Corner
2001
CIRVA glass
— Contribution
1995
glass hands, wood, mirror
— Rounding the Corner in a Mirror Corner
2001-2011
Cirva glass, MDP, mirror
— Thingness
1991–2012
acrylic, polished stainless steel, text, plywood
— Untitled (Bagatelle)
1989
wood, glass, paint
— Forever Yours, and Mine
2014
silver coated with rhodium
— Sanctuary
1992-2008
cardboard box, coloured paper
— Sol Diaze
1990
photograph, glass, piano string
— (Fishing Fly) Thunder and Lightning
1999–2007
glass, fishing fly
— Two Appointments: Once a Day, Once a Night
2014
clocks, wooden shelves
— Bluecorner
2010
MDF
— Settlement
2009
volcanic stone (100% silicon dioxide), airglass (95% air, 5 % silicon dioxide), pencil shavings, pedestal
— Island
2009
shoe, mirror
— Source
1992–2015
Source cardboard box, black paper
— Don't Touch
2004
crystals, glass
— (Fishing Fly) Undertaker
1999-2007
glass, fishing fly
— Untitled One & Untitled Two
1989
painted wood, polished stainless steel
— Weather Report
2012
acrylic glass, polished steel, printed text, plywood
— Dropping by at Jón Gunnars
1964-1992
wood, paint
— Door
2016
wood, glow thread, metal
— Fourth House
2017
polished stainless steel
— A Leaf That Fell to the Ground and Was Picked Up Sometime in the Early 80s
2015
polished stainless steel, autumn leaf, wood
— 3 Times 1200 Words
1994
three dictionaries, three optical resonators
— Source (steel ball)
2003
polished steel ball
— Ephemeral Painting
1995
mirage bowl, mini-painting
— Second House
2007-08
corrugated iron, wood, wallpaper, glass, framed photographs, meteorite, wire
— To Light, Shadow and Dust (Untitled)
1994–2014
aluminium foil, glass
— Golds
1999
sheep bone, shell
— Sketch
2013
mirage mirror, white paint, c-print, ink on paper
— Song
1992
oscilloscope
— From a Round Trip
2005
Diptych, vinyl print
— More or Less
2010
embossed paper, diptych
— Draumstafur
1997
silkscreen print
— Self Portrait
1964
plywood, school board paint
— Fullnaðarpróf
2022
archival pigment print
— (Untitled) More or Less
2010
silkscreen print, diptyc
— Placement
1999
oil paint on glass
— Artist Who Is Going to Exhibit
2003
semi glossy photo print
— Principle and Temptation
1990-2013
c-print on Aludibond
— Time and Time and Again
2013
silkscreen print
— Vegvisir
1985
Woodblock print on paper
— From Along The Way
2008
pencil on paper
— From Mont St. Victoire
1998-2020
Rubbing,(graphite on paper)